The Regnum Christi Movement offers its members some guidelines of a gospel-based spirituality as an ideal of Christian life. The spiritual path that Regnum Christi members walk mainly consists in knowing, loving, imitating, and proclaiming Christ. This is the path and these are the goals.

Below, we offer some resources that can help nurture the spiritual life of Movement members and of any Christian.

Jesus said to his
disciples: "No one can serve two masters; for a slave
will either hate the one and love the other, or
be devoted to the one and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and wealth. Therefore I tell you, do
not worry about your life, what you will eat or
what you will drink, or about your body, what you
will wear. Is not life more than food, and the
body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the
air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not
of more value than they? And can any of you
by worrying add a single hour to your span of
life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil
nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not clothed like one of these. But
if God so clothes the grass of the field, which
is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
will he not much more clothe you - you of
little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ´What will we
eat?´ or ´What will we drink?´ or ´What will we
wear?´ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all
these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you
need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom
of God and his righteousness, and all these things will
be given to you as well. So do not worry
about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.
Today´s trouble is enough for today."

Introductory
Prayer:Lord, as I begin this day, I trust in
your unfailing providence. You are the deepest desire of my
heart. In this moment of prayer I want to please
you alone. Even though I might be tired or uninspired,
even though I might only experience dryness, may this be
my prayer: I offer you all I am and all
I have.

Petition:Lord, help me to
trust more deeply in the loving providence of our heavenly
Father.

1. Why Worry?: What can be
added to Christ’s beautiful images in the Gospel, urging us
to trust in the loving providence of our heavenly Father?
All that is necessary is to ponder how God feeds
the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of
the field and to let the reality of his fatherly
care for these ephemeral creatures sink deeply into our soul.
How much more will he not care for us, the
crowning work of his hand, his sons and daughters, for
whom he is willing to send his only begotten Son
to die on the Cross? Christ penetrates to the real
cause of our worries and anxieties, our anxious concern that
often overwhelms us in life: we have little faith. Little
faith and even less trust in the goodness of our
heavenly Father. Let us thank him for his patience and
allow his fatherly goodness to penetrate to the depths of
our spirit.

2. Stay Focused:Our worries
and concerns about the material needs of our daily life
make us lose sight of the one thing that is
truly necessary: striving for holiness, for the establishment of Christ’s
kingdom in our own lives and the lives of those
around us. If only we would allow Christ to set
our hearts on fire with the consuming passion of zeal
for souls, how our lives would change! We would become
driven by the mission, constantly urged on by it —
and all of our former worries and anxieties would fade
into insignificance. Then we, too, could exclaim with Christ, “I
have come to light a fire on the earth, and
how I wish it were blazing already!” (Luke 12:49)

3. Simplicity of Heart:One virtue that helps
us trust God more and grow in apostolic zeal is
simplicity of heart. When you grow in simplicity of heart,
you will never demand of God that he explain your
vocation or your sufferings. Thanks to simplicity of heart, you
will always see God’s holy will in everything, and everything,
even pain, becomes wells and rivers of peace and joy.
Thanks to simplicity of heart, you will be able to
understand people and their misery and give them a helping
hand. Thanks to simplicity of heart, you will never harbor
hate, an evil wish, a grudge, or an evil thought
in your heart. Everything brings you to God.

Conversation with Christ:Lord, help me through this prayer
to grow in simplicity of heart, to recognize everything in
my life as coming from your loving hand.

Resolution:I will renew my spirit of faith to
see everything that happens to me today as part of
God’s loving providence.

The daily meditation is a service of Regnum Christi that offers people a Gospel reflection through e-mail. You can view the weekly meditation on this link or listen the podcast version here.